Hurts All I Want For Christmas Is New Years Day (2010)

Hurts are a British synthpop duo from Manchester composed of singer Theo Hutchcraft, (From Richmond, North Yorkshire), and synth player Adam Anderson. In July 2009, the band featured as Band of the Day on They finished in fourth position in BBC s Sound of 2010 poll. The band s song Wonderful Life was notably remixed by Arthur Baker. In early 2010 they officially released their debut single, Better Than Love, and played their first ever live shows. The song Illuminated also was the soundtrack to Sky1 HD s advert to promote their bestwatched seasonal programmes in High Definition (Bones, House, Fringe, Stargate Universe) in spring, summer 2010. Their debut album called Happiness was released on 6 September 2010. It contains a duet with Kylie Minogue entitled Devotion. To promote the release of their debut album, the band collaborated with author Joe Stretch to produce an interac br, br,